Sunday 26 October 2014

Hubble identifies Kuiper Belt targets for New Horizons mission



With NASA'S New Horizons spacecraft scheduled to pass Pluto next year, the space agency has announced the discovery of three Kuiper Belt objects (KBO); one of which may be the unmanned probe’s next destination. Located in the constellation of Sagittarius, the primordial asteroids were found after a detailed survey using the Hubble Space Telescope... Continue Reading Hubble identifies Kuiper Belt targets for New Horizons mission

Section: Space

Tags: Hubble, Kuiper Belt, NASA, New Horizons, Solar System, Space telescope, Spacecraft

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